Hope Show 15

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This weeks show comes amongst much thinking about the validity of the trade union movement in Ireland. There was a march last week in Dublin that had 60,000 people out on the street but little has happenend since except slipping back into the norm for the country. It seemed when there was over 100,000 people on the streets in ireland rallying against austerity that there could be a different dialect. That hasn’t happened. We have slipped back but what is the reason? I’m not sure. I do know that many people don’t want paycuts or austerity in the country but are prepared to do little about it. Does that mean acceptance? I don’t know. i do know that trade unions have a lot to offer society but in their current guise? There are plenty of positives but it’s up to members to change the organisations, can this happen though?